Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world did you ever manage to find so many apparently breastless beauties to put into one story? For heaven's sake, let's portray more women who look like women...
William Blankenship, a research chemist working in New York City, often thought of moving to the country for his sons' sake, but instead he took a calculated risk: he stayed in The Bronx and tried to do something practical about juvenile delinquency. He became a member of the Bronxwood Community Council, which campaigned for street lights on dark corners, provided recreational equipment for teenagers. Blankenship lost: on a Bronx street his own son was shot to death in cold blood by another youth, a total stranger. "We're whipped," said Bill Blankenship last week. "We've been...
...pupils moved to New York, Henri followed them. Setting up his own school in upper Broadway's Lincoln Arcade, Henri attracted young art students in droves. Henri's school was unquestionably the liveliest art center in New York. Scoffing at "art for art's sake," Henri urged his students to plunge into life, read Whitman and Dostoevsky, go to see Isadora Duncan dance. Students like Guy Pène du Bois and Edward Hopper became Henri enthusiasts. So did Rockwell Kent. Assigned to paint Central Park, Kent is said to have spent the night sleeping...
...plot of "Bizarre, Bizarre" is built around a noted mystery-writer, who admits that he has no imagination, but writes for the sake of his pretentious wife. Just when the two most fear involvement in social disgrace and disinheritance (the bane of the English middle class), they become entangled with William Kramps, the Ripper and butcher of butchers. At this point, the rich aunt, who has a secretary-companion named Victory, appears on the scene, naturally...
...Conversion. The seeds of anticlericalism are deep in Mexican soil. Hernando Cortes (1485-1547) fought and finagled his way through Mexico in the name of Christ as well as for the sake of conquest. The twelve humble Franciscans (later nicknamed "The Twelve Apostles") who followed the conquistadors' reign of terror were more successful missionaries. At the sight of the ragged friars padding doggedly through the mountains, the Indians sighed, "Motolinia, motolinia [Poor, poor fellows]." Generations of such brave, tough motolinias from Spain finally converted Mexico.* But on the Indians' simple faith, the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico grew...